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"Cast no bus-top 'till May 'do hop."
That there's nothing like good weather.
That it's no use weeping over shed days.
That not everyone .can survive route-flooding.
That the more who come out of a bus the better.
Of certain municipal -demands for lighter buses.
Of more tramway bonds and bounds to be , broken.
That the spring crop of fines looks like being a good one.
That traffic control is not always " jam " ; often it is " jamb."
That profits and prophets are often equally. unreliable.
That the position of rear wheels is the woe of saloon-bus designers.
Of danger spots on arterial roads which should be altered without delay.
That none are so deaf as those who do not hear some motorcycle exhausts.
That tar from roads is now causing next to no trouble in fishing waters.
Of those who won't, work so long as they can keep body and dole together.
• Of more being in the soup than out' of it as regards London's traffic control, That the observant eye will observe The COMinercial Motor new dress of type.
That road-closing orders do not always meet with the approval of local residents.
Of truck-trains as a remedy for the problems of road preservation and traffic congestion.
That in spring a char-h-ba,ncs •owner's thoughts turn not towards the fair, but to the fare.
Of a motor coach which covered 70,000 miles in two years—largely to and from' race meetings.
That motor coach parks which are used late at night should not be established in residential districts. •• That it takes only a week to prove some new bus routes, but many a week's takings to improve some old ones.
That Mr. ,Shrapnell-Srnith's recent address at Birmingham is being reprinted by the C.M.U.A. to meet demands for the complete text and tables.
That motor vehicles operating, in some cases, 200 miles from their baseshave materially helped in the recent successful operations against Arab tribes. " Nae penny, nae teekit."
" Nearest the door can get out first."
Of necessity forcing some bad bargains.
That the coach is making itself felt in Durham, That ". assembly line" has no reference to string.
That more wheels less pot-holes is a fact, not a fancy.
That cinema versus coach is a novel theme to broach.
Of travelling by train referred to as "travelling by airless," That &it rates are the rocks which have sunk many fleets. '
Of worse cases of bus overcrowding than those in London.
That it is unusual for a motorbus driver to be caught napping.
Of an optimistic driver who thought he had some road-dust in his 'eye.
That it proved to be an eyelash—washed in.
That paraffin for chains is only a beauty-bath and not a health bath.
That horse sense is desirable, but lack of petrol sense is highly dangerous.
That no really intelligent person can tolerate a pun—unless he has made it.
Of the use of discarded motor tyres as retarders in a colliery screening plant.
That Many a haulier Would be glad to put his dead mileage under a tombstone. '
That it is frequently a grave matter.
That the prohibitive .cost of. metalled roads is a factor retarding the use of motor vehicles in the , Tropics.
That joint users of trade vans are not necessarily butchers, in spite of the fact that they sometimes make up joint loads.
That the Kohler automatic electric air-choke for carburetters is not unlikely to be adopted for motor vehicles. in addition to stationary engines, as an aid to starting up.